“Religion has actually convinced people that there´s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ´til the end of time !.
But He loves you...
He loves you, and He needs money !. He always needs money !. He´s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can´t handle money !. Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more.”1
1 Available at http://www.rense.com/general69/obj.htm
However, not to discredit completely the fact that Religion interests Millions of people as the carrier of their faith. Let´s answer the question proposed in class.
1. How certain religion shapes the way the economy works ?. Economic rationality ?.
It is important to remark that in medieval times the act of lending money and charging interest from it was banned by the Vatican and the idea was to be as poor as possible to enter heaven according to the Gospels. Nevertheless, the Vatican accumulated as much richness as possible. It was only until the Protestant logic change the way of seen things and gave work an accumulation of wealth a go for everybody in common.
2. Religion as a business. Whose interest do you think they serve and why ?.
I don´t believe in the Church, what I believe is that the Church shouldn´t be so opulent when there are people dying out of starvation outside them. Religion doesn´t pay taxes, at least in the USA and they serve the interest of Vatican church to enslave the minds of Billions with the fear of original sin and punishment.
To answer the following question: “Can you imagine a world without religion where everyone would be trying to get immediate satisfaction to their individual needs ?”.
This is not necessarily true. Although Religion is capable of making people refrain from satisfying their immediate individual needs; they do it out of fear and anguish. If Religion didn´t exist I believe people would have to learn how to control themselves without that fear, but I am sure that happiness would be closer for there would be no wars among religions and no fanatisms that cloud the wisdom of people and kill others just in the name of a superior being.
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